General Chair

Aurelio Campilho, University of Porto, Portugal  

  General Co-chair

Mohamed Kamel, University of Waterloo, Canada  

  Local Organizing Committee

Ana Maria Mendonça, University of Porto, Portugal
António Miguel Monteiro, University of Porto, Portugal
Armando Jorge Padilha, University of Porto, Portugal
Jorge Alves Silva, University of Porto, Portugal
Luis Corte-Real, University of Porto, Portugal

  Conference Secretariat

Gabriela Afonso
INEB - LSI
Campus da FEUP
Rua Dr. Roberto Frias
4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Phone: +351 22 5081623
Fax: +351 22 5081624

  Advisory Committee

Name	Affiliation	Country
Majid Ahmadi	University of Windsor	CA
Prabir Bhattacharya	Concordia University	CA
Tien Dai Bui	Concordia University	CA
Mohamed Cheriet	University of Quebec	CA
Zoran Duric	George Mason University	US
Masakazu Ejiri		JP
G�sta Granlund	Link�ping University	SE
Ling Guan	Ryerson University	CA
Michal Haindl	Institute of Information Theory and Automation	CK
Edwin Hancock	The University of York	GB
Jelena Kovacevic	Carnegie Mellon University	US
Murat Kunt	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)	CH
Konstantinos N. Plataniotis	University of Toronto	CA
Alberto Sanfeliu	Technical University of Catalonia	ES
Mubarak Shah	University of Central Florida	US
Maher Sid-Ahmed	University of Windsor	CA
Ching Y. Suen	Concordia University	CA
Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos	University of Toronto	CA
Max Viergever	University of Utrecht	NL
Bhagavatula Vijayakumar	Carnegie Mellon University	US
Juan Villanueva	UAB, Barcelona	ES
Rabab Ward	University of British Columbia	CA
David Zhang	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	HK

  Program Committee

Name	Affiliation	Country
Samer Abdallah	American University of Beirut	LB
Wael Abd-Almageed	University of Maryland	US
Rafeef Abugharbieh	University of British Columbia	CA
Pedro M. Q. Aguiar	Institute for Systems and Robotics / Instituto Superior T�cnico	PT
Maher Ahmed	Wilfrid Laurier University	CA
Javad Alirezaie	Ryerson University	CA
Dimitri Androutsos	Ryerson University	CA
Helder Araujo	University of Coimbra	PT
Nafiz Arica	Turkish Naval Academy	TR
John Barron	University of Western Ontario	CA
Otman Basir	University of Waterloo	CA
Jorge Batista	University of Coimbra	PT
Christian Bauckhage	York University	CA
Alexandre Bernardino	IST	PT
Prabir Bhattacharya	Concordia University	CA
Jose Bioucas	Instituto Superior T�cnico	PT
Boubakeur Boufama	University of Windsor	CA
Tien Dai Bui	Concordia University	CA
Eva Cernadas	University of Vigo	ES
Bernard Chalmond	University of Cergy-Pontoise	FR
Mohamed Cheriet	University of Quebec	CA
Farida Cheriet	�cole Polytechnique de Montr�al	CA
David Chiu	University of Guelph	CA
David Clausi	University of Waterloo	CA
Miguel Correia	University of Porto	PT
Lu�s Corte-Real	University of Porto	PT
Jo�o Paulo Costeira	Instituto Superior T�cnico	PT
David Cuesta-Frau	Polytechnic University of Valencia	ES
J. Paulo Cunha	University of Aveiro	PT
Vito Di Ges�	Universit� degli Studi di Palermo	IT
Jorge Dias	University of Coimbra	PT
Eric Dubois	University of Ottawa	CA
Zoran Duric	George Mason University	US
Abderrahim Elmoataz	Universit� de Caen	FR
Mahmoud El-Sakka	University of Western Ontario	CA
Reza Fazel	University of Manitoba	CA
Marco Ferretti	Universit� degli studi di Pavia	IT
Paul Fieguth	University of Waterloo	CA
M�rio Figueiredo	Instituto Superior T�cnico	PT
Ana Fred	Instituto Superior T�cnico	PT
George Freeman	University of Waterloo	CA
Vicente Grau	University of Oxford	GB
Michael Alan Greenspan	Queen's University	CA
Ling Guan	Ryerson University	CA
Michal Haindl	Institute of Information Theory and Automation	CK
Edwin Hancock	The University of York	GB
Benoit Huet	Institut Eurecom	FR
Andrew Hunter	Lincoln University	GB
Jianmin Jiang	University of Bradford	GB
Joaquim Jorge	INESC-ID	PT
Joni-Kristian Kamarainen	Lappeenranta University of Technology	FI
M-Tahar Kechadi	University College Dublin	IE
Gul Khan	Ryerson University	CA
Sri Krishnan	Ryerson University	CA
Adam Krzyzak	Concordia University	CA
Robert Lagani�re	University of Ottawa	CA
Rafael Dueire Lins	Universidade Federal de Pernambuco	BR
Xuelong Li	University of London	GB
Juan Valent�n Lorenzo-Ginori	Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas	CU
Siwei Lu	Memorial University of Newfoundland	CA
Rastislav Lukac	University of Toronto	CA
Andre Marcal	University of Porto	PT
Jorge Marques	Instituto Superior T�cnico	PT
Mahmoud Melkemi	Univeriste de Haute Alsace	FR
Ana Maria Mendon�a	University of Porto	PT
Max Mignotte	University of Montreal	CA
Antonio Miguel Monteiro	University of Porto	PT
Ingela Nystr�m	Uppsala Universitet	SE
Jeff Orchard	University of Waterloo	CA
Abdelkader Ouda	University of Western Ontario	CA
Armando Padilha	University of Porto	PT
Pierre Payeur	University of Ottawa	CA
Francisco J. Perales	Universitat de les Illes Balears	ES
Fernando Pereira	Instituto Superior T�cnico	PT
Nicol�s Peres de la Blanca	University of Granada	ES
Euripides Petrakis	Technical University of Crete	GR
Pedro Pina	Instituto Superior T�cnico	PT
Armando J. Pinho	University of Aveiro	PT
J. Caldas Pinto	Instituto Superior T�cnico	PT
Filiberto Pla	Universitat Jaume I. Castell�	ES
Konstantinos N. Plataniotis	University of Toronto	CA
Tamer Rabie	University of Toronto	CA
Petia Radeva	Universitat Aut�noma de Barcelona	PT
Eraldo Ribeiro	Florida Institute of Technology	US
Luis Rueda	University of Windsor	CA
Maria Paula Queluz	IST	PT
Faramarz Samavati	University of Calgary	CA
Javier S�nchez	University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	ES
Beatriz Sousa Santos	Instituto de Engenharia Electr�nica e Telem�tica de Aveiro	PT
Marios Savvides	Carnegie Mellon University	US
Gerald Schaefer	Nottingham Trent University	GB
Paul Scheunders	University of Antwerp	BE
Jean Sequeira	Ecole Sup�rieure d'Ing�nieurs de Luminy	FR
Mubarak Shah	University of Central Florida	US
Jorge Silva	University of Porto	PT
Wladyslaw Kazimierz Skarbek	Warsaw University of Technology	PL
Bogdan Smolka	Silesian University of Technology	PL
Jo�o Sousa	Instituto Superior T�cnico	PT
Shamik Sural	Indian Institute of Technology	IN
Herbert Suesse	Friedrich-Schiller University Jena	DE
Gabriel Thomas	University of Manitoba	CA
Hamid Tizhoosh	University of Waterloo	CA
Sergio Neftali Torres	Universidad de Concepci�n	CL
Bram van Ginneken	Image Sciences Institute	NL
Dirk Vandermeulen	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	BE
Mario Vento	Universit� di Salerno	IT
Bhagavatula Vijayakumar	Carnegie Mellon University	US
Jordi Vitria	Computer Vision Center, Barcelona	ES
Yvon Voisin	Universiti de Bourgogne	FR
Edward Vrscay	University of Waterloo	CA
Michael Andrew Wirth	University of Guelph	CA
Jonathan Wu	University of Windsor	CA
Fatos Yarman-Vural	Middle East Technical University	TR
John Yeow	University of Waterloo	CA
John Zelek	University of Waterloo	CA
Guoyan Zheng	University of Bern	CH
Djemel Ziou	University of Sherbrooke	CA